No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

It takes a certain ingenuous faith- but I have it -to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.